Inventing the Internet

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by Janet Abbate

MIT Press

Due/Published July 1999, 268 pages, cloth

ISBN 0262011727

In Inventing the Internet, Janet Abbate focuses on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internet's design and use. She unfolds an often twisting tale of collaboration and conflict among a remarkable variety of players, including government and military agencies, computer scientists in academia and industry, graduate students, telecommunications companies, standards organizations, and network users.